top posts, top members ??

[Longhorn]

I could see those on the function bar above for a couple months.  They are gone now, was it something I did ?

Now you've done it! I hope you're proud of yourself. The forum couldn't support that level of anal buggery. You broke it ._.

[vorlon13]

It needed an enema.

And I was the one to do it.

[brewer]

You can still find them. Just no button

You really over estimate my skills.

[Tiberius]

They still exist but I removed the links because the code that generates them was taking 5+ seconds to run each time, putting a ridiculous strain on the database.

I wrote the code a few years ago when (1) I was not as good at writing queries as I am now, and (2) when there were way fewer posts / users. Unfortunately the code did not scale well with the site growth.

I think I'll probably replace it with a function that runs automatically once a day and caches the results.

[Losty]

You can still find them. Just no button

You really over estimate my skills.

[Minimalist]

I was wondering when someone would say something.

They're temporarily offline,  Tiberius needs to refactor the queries, they put an enormous load on the DB.

Ahem, I asked about this

http://atheistforums.org/thread-36287-po...pid1067647


on the "Am I The Only One Thread" five days ago.  No one answered so I figured it was just me.

[Pyrrho]

I was wondering when someone would say something.

They're temporarily offline,  Tiberius needs to refactor the queries, they put an enormous load on the DB.

Ahem, I asked about this

http://atheistforums.org/thread-36287-po...pid1067647


on the "Am I The Only One Thread" five days ago.  No one answered so I figured it was just me.

The moral to the story is, if you want a response for this sort of thing, you need to start a new thread in the appropriate section.  Putting such a thing in the middle of another thread is less likely to get a proper response.

[vorlon13]

They still exist but I removed the links because the code that generates them was taking 5+ seconds to run each time, putting a ridiculous strain on the database.

I wrote the code a few years ago when (1) I was not as good at writing queries as I am now, and (2) when there were way fewer posts / users. Unfortunately the code did not scale well with the site growth.

I think I'll probably replace it with a function that runs automatically once a day and caches the results.

Here's an idea:

could the Smilies be rearranged once a week in order of the average of the most to least used ??

That would put the popular ones on top, particularly my favorite:

[Losty]

All you have to do is type : panic :
That's my favorite smiley too. I don't even have a smily list so I just memorized the ones I like

[ignoramus]

I think we'll all be in agreeance is to get the mobile and tapatalk kudos button working...